Between 8 July and 26 August 2014, Israel carried out a massive offensive against the occupied Gaza Strip, codenamed ‘Operation Protective Edge’. According to documentation jointly compiled by the Palestinian human rights organisations Al-Haq, Al Mezan, Aldameer and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, a total of 2,215 Palestinians, including 1,639 civilians of which 556 were children, were killed during the offensive. The report documents damage to 32,028 Palestinian residential houses and found that 43,503 Palestinian families, including 125,079 children, were affected by the destruction and damage to residential house and puts the offensive in the wider context of the occupation and an ongoing unlawful closure